Micrometer Gravitational-wave Antenna for Astronomy

Members of the John Templeton Foundation Grant

Professor Ivette Fuentes

Professor Fuentes is the Principle Investigator (PI) and leader of our project. She is a world leading pioneer in Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI) and on the use of quantum metrology in relativistic settings. She holds a full Professorship at the University of Nottingham and is currently on leave from Nottingham taking up a fix-term Professorship at the University of Vienna. Her group is the first research group in the world working exclusively on RQI and metrology. Professor Fuentes' personal website can be found here.

Dr David Edward Bruschi

Dr Bruschi is the co-leader of our project. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the York Centre for Quantum Technologies at the University of York. He has an outstanding record in investigated topics within the broad area of RQI and related topics, such as Analogue Gravity and the testing of physical theories in space based experiments. His personal website can be found here.

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Dr Carlos Sabín

Dr Sabín is a Comfuturo Research Fellow at the Instituto Física Fundamental (CSIC, Madrid). He has been integral to the development of the MAGA detector, being the first author on the first two publications of the detector. Dr Sabín is a member of the grant awarded by the John Templeton Foundation and continues to contribute to the development of the detector.

Dr Richard Howl

Dr Howl is the principle postdoctoral research associate assigned to the John Templeton Foundation grant. He is currently working at the University of Vienna with Professor Fuentes. He obtained his PhD from the University of Southampton and has experience with working with BECs from the University of Nottingham. His personal website can be found here. ​

Dr Kenta Hotokezaka

Dr Hotokezaka is ​a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Kyoto University and will be providing expert knowledge and advice on GWs. In particular, the theoretical models that are predicted for certain sources such as black hole mergers or rotating neutron stars will be characterized so that they can be investigated in the context of the MAGA detector. His personal website can be found here.

Dr Joel Lindkvist

Dr Lindkvist is a postdoctoral research associate assigned to the John Templeton Foundation grant. He will join Professor Fuentes' group at the University of Vienna in September 2016. He obtained his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and has expert knowledge on how Quantum Field Theory in curved space can be used in experimental settings, namely in superconducting circuits. ​